Starting Monday, a gubernatorial mandate will require what many Lansing residents are already doing: wearing a mask. But without any penalties for violations, it seems enforcement will be left exclusively to the honor system.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended portions of Michigan’s “Stay Safe, Stay Home” order today through May 15, reducing some restrictions on businesses previously declared to be nonessential and ramping up precautions on masks and social distancing.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/24/20
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Coping with a loss, like a job, often requires more help than well-meaning friends or family can provide.
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Dawn Parker
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4/23/20
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to extend at least portions of the state’s “Stay Safe, Stay Home” executive order past April 30 tomorrow, while possibly rolling out preliminary plans that could gradually reopen certain sectors of Michigan’s struggling economy.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/23/20
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If the year 2020 is a horror movie, the month of May is the part where the potential victims, trapped in the house by an unseen killer, crack the door open, oh, so slowly.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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4/23/20
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Students at Michigan State University have another semester of Zoom classes, online quizzes and PDF textbooks to look forward to.
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Cole Tunningley
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4/22/20
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Staff
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4/22/20
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling on residents to get tested for COVID-19 in order to help the state better understand the scope of the pandemic in Michigan. She urges anyone who has flu-like symptoms — like fever, cough, and shortness of breath — to be tested immediately.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/22/20
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A health-care workers union is demanding that McLaren corporate executives be limited to salaries of no more than $1 million during the pandemic.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/22/20
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The city of Lansing is launching plans to reduce its carbon footprint after promoting an employee to the newly created position of sustainability manager.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/22/20
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After catching up with recent death certificates, state officials reported more than 200 more COVID-19 deaths today, bringing the statewide death toll to at least 2,700.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/21/20
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Clinton County tracked its seventh coronavirus-related death today, edging up the Greater Lansing death toll to at least 18 with more than 500 confirmed cases.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/20/20
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A Lansing-based cannabis company is giving away a one-year supply of pot (among other marijuana-related prizes) to celebrate the industry’s most famous holiday.
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Staff
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4/20/20
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At least a dozen homeless people in Lansing could be left in the cold tonight as the city enforces a blanket suspension on open fires amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Michigan’s curve continued to flatten yesterday.
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Greater Lansing tracked more than 20 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the regional total to 488 confirmed cases with at least 17 related deaths.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/18/20
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Greater Lansing tracked more than 20 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing up the regional total to at least 488 confirmed cases with at least 17 related deaths.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/17/20
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The Lansing Police Department plans to ramp up enforcement efforts should protests continue to involve social distancing violations and gridlock in the capital city.
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THURSDAY, April 16 — Browsing a local grocery store, once a leisurely social ritual, has turned into a calculated risk. Suddenly, the prospect of buying fresh produce outdoors, in a spacious …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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4/16/20
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As Michigan battles on against the coronavirus pandemic, its residents have a newfound desire for news as they attempt to keep up with a firehose of current events.
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Kyle Kaminski
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4/16/20
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